Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau has said several times over the past
two weeks that if he ever becomes prime minister, he will consider
repealing all mandatory minimum criminal sentences.

He first stuck
his toe in the justice-policy waters via Twitter, where 140-character
messages exhaust the depth of his intellect on most subjects. Asked
whether he would consider rolling back the mandatory minimums brought in
by the Tories, Trudeau Tweeted "I (and the Liberal party) trust the
judiciary to do their jobs well, so yes."

But Trudeau and his
party didn't stop there. Liberal justice critic Sean Casey told the CBC
the party stands against mandatory minimums but agreed that maybe the
minimums for murder were OK.

Monday at an event at Toronto's
Ryerson University, Trudeau even admitted to Sun News reporter Marissa
Semkiw that he "wouldn't rule out repealing mandatory minimums for
anyone," even sickos who commit sex crimes against children.

No
doubt Trudeau and the Grits are against mandatory minimums because they
believe such penalties were invented by Stephen Harper, and everything
Harper does is wrong.

But according to the criminal law policy
section of Justice Canada, there are 66 criminal offences that carry
mandatory minimum sentences in Canada, 38 of which were introduced by
Liberal governments.

Oops.

Justin Trudeau, hard-pressed to devise an original policy or anything that doesn't involve attacking Harper, because, hey, attacking is easier than being a real leader, would also have to further empower activist judges and re-consider time served in sentencing if he wants this to work.

For some people, visiting North Korea is like dating Madonna
— plodding a tired, well-worn, loveless, and morally ambiguous path that gives
some people an inexplicable feeling that they’ve entered an unexplored place.
Except that Dennis Rodman and countless others already did.

Some people sneak in to do the work the UN steadfastly refuses to do. Others, I don't know...

Hundreds of pages of
detailed information on U.S. government programs to help Cuban dissident
leaders may
have fallen into the hands of the Cuban regime due to a failure to encrypt
documents sent to Havana, a mistake one official called "an amazingly
stupid thing to do."

Is the NSA STILL spying on average Americans? I'm confident that these guys would be all over this.

Israel's foreign
minister said Wednesday that it was time for his country
to look beyond the U.S. as its principal ally, the Jerusalem Post reports.
Foreign minister Avigdor Liberman said that the U.S. was too distracted with
other problems. However, with talks resuming in Geneva toward a nuclear deal
with Iran that Israel fears is too weak, Liberman's statement reflects
disappointment in President Obama's policies.